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EUGENE L. KEYES. OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR 'IO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORPORATION, OF PA'IIERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

HEEL-SEAT LAS'IING AND NAILING MACHINE.

' Application filed December 22, 1917. Serial No. 208,43.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it. known that I, EUGENE L. KEYEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, inthe county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain Im rovements in Heel-Seat Lasting and ailing Machines, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings indicating like parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to machines for use in the manufacture of shoes and will be explained in connection with the manufacture of turn shoes, and more particularly in connection with the manufacture of turn shoes of the type largely manufactured and known as tacked heel seat shoes. In this class of turn shoes, the shoe is sewed from the heel seat on one side around the toe to the heel seat on the other side; then is turned and.

1 thereafter the upper at the heel seat is lasted that is on the inside of the heel end of thefinished shoe. The heel end of the sole is unsecured during this lasting operation and the operator turns it forwardly over the shank of the shoe to get it out of the way durin the lasting of the heel seat. Following the lasting of the heel seat the heel end of the sole is turned down and nails are driven through the sole and the surface presented by the inserted short inside piece and the lasted over margin of the upper which has been tacked to the short inside piece, these nails being generally located within the line of tacks.

These operations are now carried on chiefly by hand. Where any machinery is employed, separate machines are employed for heel seat lasting and for sole nailing, respectively, and the shoe is handled twice, being returned to the rack between the two operations. An object of the present invention is to provide a single machine organized effectively to perform both lasting and sole securing operations on a shoe. It will be understood, however, that in many of its features the invention is not limited to an organization including both lasting and sole securing means nor restricted in utility to turn shoe work.

Important features of the present invention are to be recognized in a novel machine organization including both lasting and sole securing means, the construction shown comprls ng a heel seat lasting mechanism, a mechanism for nailing the heel end of the sole down over the lasted heel seat, a shoe support, and provision for relative movements of said support and mechanisms first to present a supported shoe and said lasting mechanism in operative relation and then to present the supported shoe and the nailmg mechanism in operative relation. lhe support in the illustrative construction is arranged to be moved to present the shoe in determinate relation to each of these mechanisms and the construction is such that shoes of all sizes may be efiectively treated. In the construction shown, the invention 1s embodied in a-power operated machine organization in which a shoe support or carr1age 1s arranged for power operation to slide 1n a guideway connecting the nailing and lasting mechanisms to present the shoe heel-end first in the lasting mechanism and then to move the shoe toe-end first under and 1nto operative .relation to the nailing mechanism, sald mechanisms being operated a an incident to the presentation of the shoe in c0-0perative relation to them.

In the machine illustrated the lasting mechanism is open toward the nailing mechanism which presents an open space under and beyond the nailing instrumentalities into which the shoe can be moved toeend foremost to position the heel seat in cooperative relation to the nailing mechanism. The supporting or carrying means for the shoe is arranged to have a predetermined length of movement from its position for co-operation with the heel seat tacking mechanism, which secures the margin of the upper in lasted position, into its position for co-operation with the sole nailing mechanism so that the inserted nails and tacks will be located in prearranged relation to each other. This supporting means is constructed to permit right and left shoes to be positioned with their heel ends in the same relation to the lasting mechanism and with their foreparts in reverse lateral relation to a toe rest, and is guided for movement from the heel seat lasting mechanism to the heel seat nailing mechanism to present the shoe to the nailing mechanism in the same angular relation as in the lasting mechanism. Means are provided to turn up the heel end of the sole as the shoe is llli moved by its support into lasting position and to turn down said sole end upon the lasted heel seat preparatory to nalling the sole.

Another feature of the invention consists in a novel shoe end clamping mechanlsm, the-construction shown comprising a heel end embracing band having operating mechanism actuated to close the band upon the heel end of the shoe by movement of the shoe and the band toward lasting position. in the illustrative machine the band is arranged below and is normallyprojected forwardly from the position occupied by a shoe in co-operating with heel seat lasting and tacking mechanism and is moved baclrwardlv with the shoe into operative rela tion to the heel seat lasting and tacking mechanism and is closed as an incident to its backward movement. The band is autp matically locked in end embracing posi tion.

A further feature of the invention consists in a novel and advantageous form of end lasting mechanism, the construction shown comprising mechanism automatlcally operated to last the end of a supported shoe responsively to power operated relative movement of the shoe and said mechanlsm into co-operative relation.

lln the illustrative machine, the shoe is arranged to be moved backwardlg with its support from a normal position slow and forwardly of said lasting mechanism into oo-operative relation to the lasting devlces, this movement serving to operate the seat lasting wiper mechanism to close over the bottom of the last. Preferably, and as shown, this backward movement of the shoe and its support serves to close and lock the heel band about the end of the shoe in addition to causing the lasting mechanism to wipe the upstanding edge of the upper over the heel seat.

The end clamping mechanism is mounted on the shoe supporting carriage and is closed by the bodily movement of the carriage and shoe relatively to the heel seat lasting mechanism which is operated responsively to said bodily movement and in time relation to the closing of the band. The illustrated lasting mechanism combines seat lasting wipers and gang tacking mechanism in a novel and advantageous form which constitutes a further feature of the invention.

Another feature of this invention consists in novel means for positioning and holding a shoe on a support or carriage movable between difierent mechanisms for operating upon the shoe, the carriage in the construction shown being arranged for movement toward and from each of two mechanisms to move the positioned shoe successively into co-operative relation to said mechanisms, means being provided for automatically rememes leasing the shoe as it moves from co-oper ative relation to the last of said mechanisms, As shown, the shoe is jacked back and up on its carriage into a heel end clamping band mounted on the carriage'and is automath cally locked in such position, the band being closed and automatically locked as the car riagc moves to present the heel end of the shoe to the heel seat lasting mechanism, From this mechanism, which includes a tacking mechanism, the carriage is moved along a guideway to the opposed nailing mechanism with the shoe end clamped and the heel seat lasted and with the shoe looked on the carriage in the position in which it was lasted, to present'the heel end of the shoe to the nailing mechanism in the same angular relation to said mechanism that it formerly occupied relatively to the lasting mechanism. From this position, the oar-= riage is moved to a point between the two mechanisms, the locking devices being operated through certain abutments to release the shoe which is unjacked and ready for removal. The locking of the shoe on its carriage enables it to be presented in the same positional relation to opposed tacking and nailing mechanisms and ensures determinate relation between the inserted tacks and nails. The construction provided insures that the points of insertion shall not be alined or overlapped and that the nails be determinately positioned properly to secure the heel end of the sole to the heel seat.

A further feature of the invention consists in novel pressure means movable to lay and hold the heel end of the sole down on the heel seat with heavy conforming pressure preparatory to the driving of the nails into the sole. In the illustrative machine, a combined sole pressing and nailing head is forced down upon the sole under heavy spring pressure prior to and during the driving of the nails.

Another feature of the invention consists in novel controlling means, the construction shown comprising starting means for a power operated nailing mechanism for operating upon a shoe which is operated responsively to movement of a shoe supporting means to position a supported shoe in oo-operative relation to said mechanism. The actuation of the starting means will thus take place in time relation to the movement of the shoe and will expedite the operation as well as relieve the operator. As shown, the shoe supporting carriage is moved along a guide way to present the shoe in proper relation to the nailing mechanism, and a starting clutch is operated by the moving carriage at the proper time. 1

A further feature of the present invention consists in novel means for feeding fasteners to an inserting mechanism responsively to movement of a shoe relatively to said mechanism. In the construction shown a lasting tack inserting mechanism forming part of a. heel seat lasting mechanism is opposed to and connected with a sole nail inserting mechanism by a guideway along which a shoe supporting carriage is moved successively to present the supported shoe to the action of the tack inserting and nail inserting mechanisms respectively, which mechanisms include tack and nail supplying means. As the shoe carriage is moved to position the shoe to co-operate with the heel seat lasting and tacking mechanism, tack and nail separating and distributing means are actuated responsively to said movement of the carriage to cause sets of tacks and nails to be fed to both the tack and nail inserting mechanisms. These fasteners are, therefore, positioned for driving into the wiped over upper and the sole respectively, when the shoe reaches positions of cooperation with the respective tacking and nailing mechanisms.

The above and other novel features of the invention not specifically recited are described in detail in the following specification and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating a preferable embodiment of the invention and forming part of this specification- Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a machine constructed in accordance with the present invention, the shoe carriage and operating mechanisms being positioned as at the beginning of the machine cycle, 1

Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of the left hand end of the machine shown in Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a view in elevation of the right hand end of the machine of Fig. 1, parts being. shown in section,

ig. 4 is a perspective detail view illustrating the heel clamping and heel seat last ing and tacking features of the invention,

Fig. 5 is a .perspective view of the shoe carriage with a shoe mounted thereon and clamped by the heel band and showing the connected operating parts for the tack separator and distributer.

Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are, respectively, views in side elevation, to plan and end elevation of the shoe supporting carriage,

Fig. 9 is a detail view illustrating the sole pressing and nailing mechanism,

Fig. 10 is a perspective view of the heel seat wiper-tackers and certain operating and adjusting parts.

Fig. 11 is a top plan of the wiper-tackers closed over the heel seat of a shoe, and

Fig. 12 is a detail of the clutch operating means for the sole nailing mechanism.

The frame of the machine, as shown, comprises a series of superposed sections 2, 4 and 6 providing s aced walls or housings between or within w ich portions of the maimmediately returned to engage t floor or other support rearwardly of saidv wall. A pulley 12 with its hub 14 is freely revoluble on shaft 8 and is continuously driven throu h a belt from a suitable source of power suc as a line shaft or motor. suitable clutch disk 16 of known type is-fixed to shaft 8 and is normally held disconnected from pulley 12 by a dog 20 which engages with one of a plurality of stop shoulders or notches 18 on the periphery of the sleeve of said clutch disk. The dog 20 is pinned to a rock shaft 22 having its rear end journaled 1n thestandard 10 and its front end journaled 1n and extending through the rear wall of the base 2. A tripping lever 24 (Figs. 1 and 2) pinned to the front end of said shaft has a depending plate normally positioned by a sprin attached to said lever to be engaged by t e clutch tripping plate 26 on the upper end of a spring retracted arm 28 operated by a treadle 30 at the front of the frame. To start the rotation of the shaft 8, the operator depresses the treadle and immediately releases it, momentarily throwing the dog 20 out of engagement with a shoulder 18 and permitting the clutch to operate to turn the shaft until the next shoulder 18 is engaged by the do which is he periphery of the clutch disk when the ti'eadle is released. 1

Between the pulley 12 and the rear wall of frame section 2, two sprocket wheels 32, 34 are mounted on and continuously rotate with the hub 14. These sprocket wheels through suitable connecting chains drive co-operating sprocket wheels 36, '38, on shafts 40, 42, journaled respectively in the walls of sections 6 and 4 of the frame and operating the tack lifters of tack hoppers of known construction forming parts of certain tacking and nailing mechanisms later to be described.

The outer or front end of shaft 8 carries a crank arm 44 positioned between the walls of frame section 2 and connected by a link 46 to a lever .48 which is pivoted to the frame at 50 and has its upper end connected by link 52 to a bracket 54 rigidly secured to the base 56 of a reciprocable support or carriage for the shoe supporting and clamping means. The base 56 is supported by and guided in ways 58 formed on the inner faces of the walls of frame section 4 (see Fig. 4) for reciprocation lengthwise of the machine frame through movement of lever 48 effected through crank arm 44 of the driven shaft 8.

The upper face of the base 56 is longi-.

tudinally and centrally channeled to receive and guide the base plate 60 of a shoe supporting jack. The left end of this base plate, as viewed in Fig. 1, has its upper face channeled to receive an adjustable toe supporting plate 62. A pin (Fig. 6) extends downwardly throug., 'h the toe plate and is insertible in-a longitudinally extending series of holes in the base plate 60 to adjust the position of the toe support relatively to the shoe. The toe plate 62 has an in teriorly threaded boss 64 receiving the threaded stem 66 of a toe rest 68 arc-shaped in a horizontal plane. The edge flanges of the base plate 60 and of the toe support 62 are enclosed between the base 56 and the overlapping edges of retaining strips 72 secured to the side edges of said base.

The rear end of base plate 60 is formed with an enlargement 74 having a vertical passage through which a heel post 76 carrying a heel pin 78 at its upper end is guided for vertical movement. A last and shoe mounted on the heel post may be swung laterally so that right and left shoes may be positioned with their heel parts'in the same relation to a heel lasting mechanism and with their fore parts in reverse lateral relations to the toe rest. The enlargement 74 projects upwardly from plate 60 and also has a portion extending downwardly through an elongated opening in the base 56. The plate 60 is connected to the base 56 of the shoe carriage by a toggle 80 connecting the lower end of enlargement 74 with bracket 54 at the opposite end of base 56, the toggle being normally broken by a spring connecting the links of the toggle. It may be straightened to move the plate 60, which forms a shoe jacking slide, to the right as viewed in Fig. 1, by means of a plate 82 carried at the upper end of a rod 84 which is moved upwardly to straigten the toggle by a treadle 86.

A stud 7 3 in the base of heel post 76 rides over a spring-pressed lever 75 carried by base 56 when the toggle is straightened and lifts up and yieldingly presses the bottom of the last and sole against the end of a height gage 81 adjustable longitudinally in an arm 83 swiveled in a bracket 85 attached to an upper frame section 6 and having a depending hold back plate 87 rearwardly of the height gage and permenently positioned. The heel post is locked in its raised position with the bottom of the last and sole against the gage by an eccentric 79 bearing against the post and having a stemjournalcd in enlargement 74 and projecting outwardly from the enlargement. An arm 831 attached to the projecting end of the stem is normally pulled by an attached spring in a direction to cause the eccentric 'to oppose downward movement of the heel post. An

anchor pin 851 for this spring wardly from the arm.

This movement of jacking slide 60 toward the right in the illustrated machine projects outoperates to position the extremity of the heel end of the shoe against a clamping band. The base 56 of the reciprocable carriage is formed with an upstanding head 57 (Figs. 5-8) having its upper face longitudinally grooved to support and guide for longitudinal movement a spring pressed plunger 88 which operates to close a heel clamping band 90 having links. 92 connecting its forward ends with the adjacent ends of band closing levers 94 having their rear ends overlapped and formed with cam slots 96 therein. A stud or roller 98 upstanding from the plunger 88 enters both cam slots and, in the normal rearward spring-pressed position of the plunger, serves to position the levers 94 to hold the ends of the band 90 opened out. These levers are overlapped and pivotally mounted on the top face of tensions 4 and 4 at the left and right hand ends of the machine respectively, and with an upward extension 4 intermediate of the ends of the machine and enclosing the head 57 of the sliding shoe support or carriage in the position of the carriage at the beginning of a cycle. The upward extension 4 in line with the plunger 88 (see Fig.1) has a socket which receives a yielding adjustable abutment plug 106 normally pressed toward the end of the plunger 88 by a coiled spring sleeved on the threaded adjustment rod108 which extends from the plug and through the end plate of extension 4 and is adjusted by suitable means such as the nut shown in Fig, 1. After the treadle 86 has been operated to jack the shoe backwardly against the heel band and to lift it upwardly against the height gage which acts temporarily to turn back the heel end of the sole, the gage pin 81 on the arm 83 is swung upwardly out of the way (see Fig. 5), the treadle 30 is operated to clutch shaft 8 to the driving pulley 12 and through crank arm 44, link 46 and lever 48 to cause the shoe carriage base 56 with its head 57 and the last and shoe to be moved bodily backward or to the right as seen in Fig. 1. The end of plunger menace 88 will contact with abutment plug 106 in 56 and head 57 continue to move rearwardly, the stud 98 will act a ainst cam slots 96 to close the band 90 tight y against the heel end of the shoe. The abutment 106 will yieldto permit the full stroke of the shoe carriage 56 to the right after the band has been tightly closed about the shoe. The plunger and band are locked in this shoe clamping position by an eccentric roll 110' journaled in the head 57 and having a projecting crank arm 112 at the outer face of said head. A releasing lever 113 is pivoted to the side of head 57 below crank 112 and co-operates with a pin 115 on the inner face of the frame in a manner hereinafter explained. The backward movement of the carriage 56 is halted when the dog 20- engages the next adjacent notch 18 (Fig. 1) on the clutch. disk sleeve. the carriage 56 now being at the extremity of its movement toward the right hand end of the machine.

- .tion indicated generally at 128 extend down- When the shoe supporting jack ,is moved backwardly into the heel band, it is locked in position on the carriage 56 by means of an eccentric roll 114 (Fig. 4) journaled in the enlargement 74 of the shoe jacking plate and engaging a retaining strip 72 on the base 56 of the shoe carriage. The eccentric roll has a crank arm 116 alined horizontally with arm 831 of the heel post eccentric and normally pulled downwardly by a spring (Fig. 4) to cause the eccentric to lock against the strip 72 to hold the slide 60 in jacked-back position on the base 56 of the sliding shoe carriage. The anchor pin 118 for this spring projects outwardly from the arm 116 and with anchor pin 851 of theheel post eccentric arm is arranged for engagement with a releasing member at the opposite end of the machine as later described.

The upper ends of the upward extensions 4 4 4 of the frame are flanged to receive flanges at the bases of the spaced plates forming the walls of the upper sections 6 of the machine frame. The base of the upper section 6 at the extreme right end of the machine as viewed in Fig. 1 overlaps and is connected to the base of the next adjacent or intermediate section 6, as seen in Fig. 1. This extreme end section supports a tack feeding, hopper 120 of known construction whose tack litter is continuously rotated through a pulley 122 (Fig. 1) on the hub of the sprocket wheel 38 on shaft 42 and a suitable connecting belt crossed and passing over connected tension pulleys 124, 126 (Figs. 1 and 3). From the hopper 120, a plurality of raceways of known constructo a tack separator and distributor 130 also of known construction and which may or may not correspond to that disclosed in United states Patent No. 1,002,421,01 Sept. 5, 1911.

To reciprocate the slide of this distributer, an inclined cam way 132 is attached to the back face of head 57 of the sliding shoe carriage. A rock shaft 134 is journaledon the frame sections 4, 4 (Fig, 1), and ad iacent to its right hand end, as viewed in ig. 1, is provided with a rock arm 136 (Fig. 5) having a roller on its end entering in the inclined cam way 132 and moved t6 the lower end of said cam way to rock arm 136 downwardly when the sliding shoe carriage 56 is moved to the right hand end of the machine (see Fig. 5) to close the heel band, and, as will be seen later. to wipe the edge of the upper over the heel seat and to tack it down. Preferably, means such as a spring 137 and stop pin 139 (Fig. 5) willbe employed to position the end of rock arm 136 for entry into the cam way. The extremity of the rock shaft adjacent to this cam way and rock arm 136 carries a crank arm 138 (swung upwardly by downward rocking of arm 136) to the end of which is attached a block 140 sliding on the lower endof a rod 142 against the tension of a coiled spring 146 sleeved on the lower end of the rod and bearing against a collar 144 pinned to the rod.

This spring is a safety spring and yields when the tack separating and distributing slide in moving becomes caught on a tack. The upper end of this rod and the end of the lower arm of a bell crank lever 148 have a ball and socket connection, the lever 148 which is journaled in a bracket on the frame section. having its other and upper end connectedby a rod 150 to the operating slide of the tack separator and distributer 130.

Upward movement of crank arm 138 when the carriage 56 is moved to the right to close the. heel band moves the distributing slide in the direction to feed a set of tacks, in the present showing eight, from the separator and distributer downwardly through a series of tubes 152 into tack channels 154 (Fig. 4) extending downwardly from the upper edge of a combined wiping and tacking member best seen in Figs. 4, 10 and 11. This member comprises complemental vertically extending plates 156 curved to conform substantially to the curvature of the heel end of a. last and pivotally interconnected at their rear ends, a laterally extending flange 158 being formed at the base of the plates to support them between the flanged upper edges of the section plates 4 and the flanged lower edges of section plates 6 of the frame as best seen in Fig. 4. The plates are reduced in thickness between their upper and lower edges to form shoulders (Figs. 4, 10 and 11) and are formed with lateral slots at their rear ends in line with their connecting pivot pin.- Complemental operating levers 160 rest upon and are secured to these shoulders and have their ends overlapped and formed with eyes extendin in these lateral slots of the plates 156. he pivot pin of the plates 156 extends through these eyes and connects the operating levers so that I functionally they form a part of and extenextend into the bottom flange of the frame sections 6 as shown in Fig. 4.

The tack channels 154 terminate adjacent to the base of the plates 156 in tack pockets. The plates 156 in line with these tack pockets are formed with vertical bores 166 in which are seated tack drivers 168, the up per ends of which project above the top of the plates 156 and are flanged. Springs sleeved on the drivers between their end flan s and the top of plates 56 tend to hold the ower ends of the drivers above the tack pockets to permit tacks to be fed down the inclined channels 154 and into these pockets. Tack holding blocks 169 of known construction which may or may not correspond-substantiall to those disclosed in United States Letters latent No. 999,327, of August 1, 1911 are dovetailed in the base of the plates 156 (Figs. 4 and 10) and are constructed to permit the tacks to be driven from the blocks and into the overwiped edge of the upper when the drivers 168 are forced downwardly.

The lower inner edges and bottom faces of the lates 156 form heel wipers positioned inv a lime slightly above the plane of the top egge of the heel band 90, the plates and wipers being normally spread or opened out by an interposed coiled spring 170 (Figs. 4 and 11) anchored to the flanged ends of opposed screw-studs 172 which extend through threaded bores in the plates 156 adjacent to their upper edges. These screw studs may be operated to vary the tension of spring 170 and to adjust the contour defined by the edges of the wipers substantially to the contour of the heel seat to be lasted so that wipers may be quickly adjusted for right and left lasts and will be effective snugly to draw the upper to the incurved side of the heel and the rear of the shank at the inner side of a last.

A bar 174 connected to the plates 156 by their pivot stud (see Figs. 10 and 11) extends rearwardly from the rear ends of these plates and is connected to a link 17 6 having an elongated slot in its end through which extends a pin carried by a lever 17 8 pivoted at one end to the base of frame plate 6 (Fig. 1). This lever carries a tooth co-operating with a ratchet on the bottom edge of frame plate 6 (Fig. 1) by means of which the position of its pin relatively to theslot in link 176 may be adjusted to vary the extent or limit of closing movement imparted to the wipers by backward movement of the last and shoe on carriage 56. The lever may be sprung downwardly to release its tooth from the ratchet in making this adjustment which is desirable to adapt the wipers for operating upon wide and narrow heels.

\ The bar 174 is formed with a toothed plate 180 on its under side to 'Wl1lCll the upper toothed face of an abutment plate 182 is adjustably connected by suitable means such as the slot and clamping bolt shown in Fig. 10. The plate 182 has a downward extension 184 at its forward end which is positioned in the plane of rearward movement of the lug 102 on the head 57 of carriage 56. WVhen treadle 30 is operated to cause the carriage to be moved rearwardly to close the heel band upon the end of the shoe and last, as described,'the edge of the upper at the rear extremity of the shoe is engaged by the edge of the wipers at their rear ends, and wiped over and down upon the last bottom by the time the lug 102 and abutment 182 contact, the position of the abutment determining the extent of movement of the wipers over the central rear end of the last andpredetermining the tacking point. Rearward movement of the carriage 56 continues after the lug and abutment contact, the abutment being now moved rearwardly and moving the abutting ends of the wipers rearwardly, causing the wipers to fulcrum on the studs 164 (see Fig. 11) and swing inwardly over the edge of the last bottom with a rearward component of movement until the stud on lever 178 contacts with the end of the slot in link 176 and prevents further closing movement. The studs 164 upon which the wiper plates fulcrum are located substantially in line with the rear ends of the wipers and therefore cause the wipers to swing in over the sides of the last with a lengthwise heelward component of movement. The adjusted position of the stud on lever 178 relatively to the end of the slot in link 176 determines the extent of closing movement of the wipers and also the tacking points at the sides of the heel end of the shoe since the wipers and tacking blocks are integrally connected and in permanent relation. The band is firmly closed upon the sides of-the upper at the heel end of the last when the wipers swing in over the sides of the heel seat so that the indrawing pressure of the wipers against the edge of the upper cannot displace the up er on the last, the abutment 106 yielding to permit continued movement of the shoe carriage after the heel band has been closed. Preferably, the ratchet on the base of frame 6 which co-operates with the tooth of lever 178 will her a scale or nuwill have similar indications for the disportions of the link.

tance of the tacking point from the edge of the last end provided by the various adjustment notches. To allow for lost motion between the lever 48 and carriage 56 when and a clutch disk 204, both of which are r I pinned to the shaft and are continuously r0- tating. A bracket 206 is laterally outstanding from the cam 202 and on this bracket an eccentric roll 208 is'journaled, its spindle 21.0 extending outwardly and downwardly from the bracket and normally tending to swing the roll to clutch the disk 204 to cam 202. A fin 212 upstands from a sleeve 214 loose on the lever 17 arrests rearward movement t shaft 42 and slidable longitudinally against the carriage and closing movement of the wipers, the link 52 may be constructed as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, a stiff coiled spring 541 being interposed between telescoping When the carriage 56 has reached the end of its movement toward the right and the dog 20 has engaged the next adjacent notch 18 on the clutch disk sleeve to' disconnect shaft 8 from the driving pulley and to bring carriage 56 to rest, the heel end of the upper will have been clamped to the sides of the last by the band; its upstanding edges will have been wiped over the heel seat (hold back plate 87,Fig. 4, having held the end of the sole turned back) and a set of tacks will have been fed down the tack channels 154 to rest against the lower ends of the driver rods 168, which at this point in the operation, are lowered to project their ends in the line of the tack channels through depression of their heads by a driving plate 186. This plate is supported at the lower end of a vertically guided rod 188 whose upper end is connected a link 190 to one end of a lever 192 having a pivot pin at a point between its ends which is journaled in a bracket 194 (Figs. land 3) upstanding from the machine frame.

.A strong coiled spring 196 tends to swing the long arm of lever 192 downwardly to operate the tack driving'plate 186. The lever is moved against thetension of this spring by a latch 198 pivoted to the upper end of a vertically extending controlling rod 200 and pulled inwardly to engage the end of the short arm of lever 192 by'acoiled spring extending from the latch to a link 201 pivoted on the bracket 194 and on the pivot pin of the latch and serving to guide the rod 200 in its vertical movements. A nose 199 on the latch is arranged to engage a wedge face 203 (Fig. 3) on bracket 194 when the rod and latch are lowered to move the latch outwardly against thetension of its spring and to release the end of the lever 192 so that the tacks may be driven. The latch is in its lowered position when the carriage 56 is moved to the right as previously described, and the driver rods 168 are depressed by the spring 196.

The lower end of rod 200 carries a latthe tension of a coiled spring 216. This fin engages the downwardly bent end of spindle 210and normally prevents the eccentric roll from turning in the direction to clutch rotating disk 204 to the cam 202. The sleeve and fin may be displaced to permit this clutching action to take place by suitable means such as a knee or thigh operated plate 222 at the outer end of a rod 220which may be moved to engage an arm 218 depending from sleeve 214. This may be effected as the carriage 56 moves to clamp the end of the shoe and to wipe the edge of the upper over the heel seat. It is Within the scope of the invention, however, to operate this clutch automatically responsively to movement of .the carriage to present the shoe in tack-receiving position. The plate 222 is intended to be released immediately after it has been pushed inwardly, the fin 212 returning to its original position and engaging spindle 210 at the end of one revolution of cam 202 to disconnect said camand its clutch disk 204. At the beginning'of the cycle of rotation of cam 202 the cam groove in the side face of this cam (see Fig. 1) operates to lift rod 200 causing latch 190 to engage over the end of the short arm of lever 102. Thereafter the rod 200 is lowered, pulling up the long arm of the lever 192, tensioning the spring 196 and permitting the springs of the driver rods to lift the driver rods. allowing the tacks fed into the tack channels 154 by the heel clamping and wiping movement of carriage 56 to drop into the tack pockets. As the rod 200 continues to lower, the nose 199 of the latch engages the wedge 203 (see Fig. 3) and the latch is swung outwardly, releasing lever 192 and permitting its spring 196 to snap it downwardly. The driver plate 186 is thereby snapped down against the heads of the driver rods 1,68 causing them to drive the tacks into the over-wiped upper. and latch remain in this lowered position during the remainder of the cycle of cam 202 and are raised at the beginning of the next cycle as previously described.

The shoe is now conditioned for the laying and nailing ofthe heel end of the sole. Certain instrumentalities are provided at the 0-pposite or left hand end of the machine as The rod viewed in Fig. 1, for effecting this result. The frame section 6 at the left end of the machine as viewed in Fig) 1, has a nail hopper 2 4 mounted in a supporting bracket 226 and having a series of raceways indicated generally at 228, leading to a nail separator and distributer 230. all of known type and which may correspond to the described tack hopper, tack feeding, separatmgand distributing means at the opposite end of the machine. The tack lifter for hopper 224 is continuously rotated by a belt connection to a pullev 244 connected to the sprocket 36 which is loose on shaft 40 and is continuously rotated through sprocket 32 on the hub of driving pulley 12. The slide 232 Fig. 2) of the nail separator and distributer is operated through the rock shaft 134 when the latter is oscillated in the clamping and wiping of the upper, a bell crank lever 234 (Fig. 2) being connected to said slide and operated by a rod 236 pivoted at its lower end to a crank arm 238 fixed to said rock shaft. The construction and operation are similar to that of the slide operating parts of the tack hopper at the right end of the machine, a safety spring 240 being similarly interposed between a block attached to the end of the crank arm and a second block 242 on the rod above its lower end.

From the nail separator 230 the nails are fed by tubes 246 to openings 249 in. the flanged base 248 of a stationary member having a sleeve 250 in which a vertically moving nail driving plunger 252 is guided, said plunger having a nail driving plate 254 at its lower end from which a series of fixedly attached depending nail drivers 256 extend down through vertical bores 258 in a sole pressing and nailing head 260. This head is also bored to provide a series of nail feeding passages 262 alined with the openings 249 and inclined to form junctions with the driver bores 258 adjacent to the lower end of the head, nail holding pockets being formed at this point and nail blocks 264 of known type which may correspond to the tack blocks previously described, being mounted in the bottom face of the head 260 below said nail pockets. The head is guided for vertical movement, and nail feeding openings 249 and nail passages 262 are maintained in operative alinement by means of ribs 266 guiding between parallel walls 268 at the inner sides of frame plates 6 as best seen in Figs. 2 and 9.

The sole pressing and nailing head 260 is raised and lowered relatively to the nail driving plate and the supported shoe and last through connections operated from shaft 40. A curved lever 272 journa-led on a spindle 274 supported between the plates of frame section 6 has a pin and slot connection at one end with a lug 270 laterally offset from said head and has its other end bifurcated at 276 (Fig. 2) to embrace and journal on ins 278 outstanding from a sleeve 280 against the lower end of which the u per end of a coiled spring 282 abuts. his spring is sleeved on the lower end of a rod 284 between said sleeve 280 and a tensioning nut on the rod. The rod extends upwardly through and above said sleeve and is pivoted to one end of a laterally curved lever 286 (Figs. 2 and 9) the other end of which is journaled on spindle 274 (Fig. 9). Between its ends a roll 288 bears upon the peri hery of a cam 290 fixed to cam shaft 40 an best seen in Figs. 2 and. 9. Upward movement of lever 286 through the action of peripheral cam 290 against said roll will compress spring 282, turning lever 272 on its pivot 274 and yieldingly forcing the sole pressing and nailing head 260 downwardly causing the base of said head to engage and press down hard on the'heel seat of a shoe the heel end of the sole into which nails are subsequently driven. During this movement, the nail driving rods 256 are stationary so that the nails fed into the channels 262 and previously stopped by the driver rods may now drop down into the nail pockets of the nail blocks.

The nail driving plunger 252 has its upper end connected by a link 292 with the ong arm of an operating lever 294 j ournaled between its ends in. a bracket 296, uprising from the frame section 6. A strong coiled spring 298 normally tends to throw downwardly the long arm of said lever. The end of the short arm of the lever is held by a latch 300 pivotally mounted upon the upper end of an operating rod 302 guided in its vertical movement by a link 304 pivotally mounted on the latch pivot and on the bracket 296. A coiled spring connects the latch and said link and normally tends to pull the upper end of the latch inwardly to engage over the end of lever 294. The latch is formed with a nose 295 designed to be engaged by a cam surface 297 on the disk 310 pinned to shaft 40 and normally inactive. The roll 308 is held pressed against the peripheral cam surface by suitable means such as a spring (Fig. 1). In the inoperative position of the parts with cam 310 at rest the rod 302 is in partially lowered position (Fig. 2) with the latch nose 295 positioned to be engaged and moved outwardly to release lever 294 upon further lowering of the rod. The cam 310 is figured to lift the roll 308 and; further to lower the rod 302 toward the end of a cycle of the cam after the head 260 has pressed the heel end of the 'soledown on the heel seat of the shoe. Subsequently the rod is lifted to cause the latch 300 to engage and latch over the end of the lever and then the rod is lowered to the position it occupies at the beginning of a cycle as described and as best seen in Fi 2.

The sole pressing and nailing head is lowered and the nails are driven through rotation of the cam shaft 40 by means controlled and operated by the carriage 56 as it moves from the ri ht end to the left end of the machine. djacent to cam 310 a clutch disk 312 is mounted on .the hub of sprocket wheel 36 to rotate continuously therewith. The cam 310 is provided with a bracket 314 in which is journaled the spindle 318 of an eccentric 316, the spindle extending out beyond the opposite face of the cam and being bent downwardly. This spindle normally tends to swing the eccentric 316 in the direction to bind on clutch disk 312 and to clutch said disk to cam 310. -This action is normally prevented by an inclined plate 322 attached to the beveled end of an arm 320 (Figs. 1 and 2) which plate engages the bent end of spindle 318 and prevents the eccentric from turning to connect the cam 310 and rotating disk 312. The arm 320 extends lengthwise of the machine from the cam disk (see Fig. 1) and is provided with a hub 324 splined on the end of spindle 274 which proiects beyond the rear wall of the frame and which has a coiled spring 326 sleeved thereon and tensioned against the arm 320 to hold the arm in position to render the nail driving mechanism inoperative. The hub portion of the arm on the opposite side from the spring 326 is formed as a wedge and a vertically sliding plate 330 is formed with a co-operating wedge face 332 (Fig. 2) and is slotted to guide on spindle 274 for vertical movement to force the arm 320 backwardly and thus to release the spindle 318. A link 334 depends from the lower edge of plate 330 and is connected to a crank arm 336 carried at the rear end of a rock shaft 338 journaled in a bearing in the rear plate of the frame and having its forward end positioned between the plates of the frame. To this forward end is attached a second crank arm 340 extending at an angle to the first crank arm and carrying at its lower end a pivoted contact link 342 having an extension to engage and turn crank arm 340 when the contact link is engaged and turned by a lug 346 (Figs. 1, 2, and 6) upstanding from a strip 72 on the base 56 of the shoe carriage when said carriage is moved from the right end of the machine to the left end. A coiled spring such as shown, or other suitable means, normally tends to swin crank arm 340 to move plate 330 upwar ly to inactive position as shown in Figs. 2 and 12. When the carriage is returned to its original position at the right hand end of the machine, contact link 342 is turned without actuating crank arm 340. link 348 is pivoted to the frame at the inside face of a frame'plate with its lower end restmg in a slotted abutment lug 350 (Figs. 1 and 2) the edge of the link being in line withthe pins 118 and 851 of the arms of eccentrics 114 and 79 which look the heel spindle and last carrying slide in position on carriage 56.

It will be seen that with the described and illustrated arrangement of the heel. seatlasting and tacking mechanism and the sole nailing mechanism, the seat lasting and tacking mechanism is open toward the nailmg mechanism, to receive a shoe heel end foremost and the nailing mechanism presents an open space under and beyond the nalling instrumentalities into which the shoe may be moved toe end foremost to bring the heel seat under the nailing instrumentalities.

With the construction and arrangement of these various mechanisms in mind, it will be seen that the operation of the machine is as follows: The workman, after adjusting the toe post 66 for length of shoe, turning down the height gage 81, and if necessary, adjusting the wiper-tackers through screws 17 2 and making any of the described adjustments of lever 17 8 and abutment 182 for the extent of overwipe and the tacking line, then depresses treadle 86 to slide the shoe relatively to its carriage and back against the heel band, the lever 75 elevating the heel pin to press the heel seat against the gage pin 81. The parts are locked in this position by the eccentrics 79 and 114 as described. The height gage pin 81 is now turned up (as shown in Fig. 5) and the workman depresses momentarily the treadle 30, throwing in the driving clutch, whereupon the power means through lever 48 moves the carriage 56 with the jacking slide and its supported shoe and last bodily to the right as viewed in Fig. 1, clamping the heel band about the heel end of the shoe and wiping the edge of the upper over the heel seat as described. The hold back plate 87 acts in this movement of the shoe to en gage and turn back the heel end of the sole out of the way of the wiper-tackers. This movement of the carriage turns the rock shaft 134 and through the described connections operates the separating and distributing devices of the tacking and nailing mechamsms at the opposite ends of the machine, thereby feedingsets of tacks and nails for the subsequent heel seat tacking and sole nailing operations. The workman now presses inwardly the plate 222 operating the clutch which actuates the tack driving mechanisms. When the tacks have been driven, the treadle 30 is again depressed and lever turning said permit the 48 moves the carriage 56 with the clamped last and shoe to the left hand end of the machine as viewed in Fig. 1. During this movement of the carriage, the lever 113 slides over and is swung by pin 115 without engaging its upper end with arm 112 of the clamping plunger eccentric lock; pins 118 and 851 engage, lift up and pass beyond the link 348 since their eccentrics 79 and 114 lock them against depression by the link; and the lug 346 on the carriage 56, engages and passes beyond contact link 342, link and the connected crank direction to operate the described wedging device to throw in the clutching eccentric 316 and cause rotation of the cam shaft 40, the plate 322 being returned by spring 326 into position to turn the eccentric to unclutch at the end of one revolution of the cam shaft. The upturned heel end of the sole will also engage the nail ing base of head 260 which is lowered as the heel seat moves into position therebeneath, and will be laid down on the heel seat before pressure is applied by said head. At the beginning of the revolution of the cam shaft 40, the cam 290 operates to depress the sole pressin and nailing head 26 0 moving it downward y relatively to the nail drivin head and drivers to press the heel end 0 the sole hard down on the heel seat asdescribed and thereafter the cam 310 becomes operative to release the latch 300 to lever 294 to be actuated to drive the nails into the heel end of the sole. The driving head 254 with its drivers has a long driving stroke owing to the previously effected movement of the nailing head. The head 260 and the member 254 are then returned to their starting positions. Since the carriage 56 has a definite limit of movement toward the left, the heel end of the sole will always occupy a determinate position relatively to the nailing head to locate the nails in prearranged relation to the previously inserted tacks. The shoe carriage is also guided to carry the shoe to the nailing mechanism in the same angular relation to the machine which it occupied in the heel seat lasting mechanism, thereby ensuring a definite relation in the relative locations of the tacks and nails.

After the nails are driven into the heel arm 340 in a .seat the operator again depresses treadle 30 and the carriage is moved toward the right and is automatically sto ped in the position illustrated in Fig. 1. uring this movement to the right, the lug 346 turns link 342 without moving crank arm 340 and the connected clutch parts; the pins 118 and 851 ride over the upper edge of the link 348 which is held against depression by abutment lug 350 and are turned by the inclined edge of said link to swing their eccentrics in the direction to release the shoe jacking slide and heel post and the lever 113 engages pin 115 to swing in the direction to engage and turn arm 112 to release the locking eccentric of the band closing slideso that the last and shoe are unjacked as shown in Fig. 1. The operator now removes-the released shoe and last and the machine is ready for another cycle of operations.

While the described machine is particularly useful in the manufacture of turn shoes of the tacked heel seat type and has been so described, it is recognized that the mechanism forming the subject-matter of this invention has a wider field of application and the invention as defined in the claims is not intended to be so limited except as expressly stated or as required by the context.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is I 1. A machine of the class described having, in combination, heel seat lasting mechanism, mechanismfor nailing the heel end of the sole over the lasted heel seat, and a shoe support, said mechanisms and support being constructed and arranged for relative movements first to present a supported shoe and said lasting mechanism in co-operative relation and then to present the heel end of the supported shoe and said nailing mechanism in co-operative'relation.

2. A machine of the class described having, in combination, heel seat lasting mechanism, mechanism for nailing the heel end of 1 the sole over the lasted heel seat, and a shoe support constructed and arranged for movement first to present the heel end of a supported shoe in co-operative relation to the lasting mechanism and then to present the 1 heel end of said shoe in co-operative relation to said nailing mechanism.

3. A machine of the class described having, in combination, heel seat lasting mechanism, mechanism for nailing the heel end of 1 the sole over the lasted heel seat, a shoe support constructed and arranged for movements of determinate extent first to present the heel end of a supported shoe in co-operative relation to the lasting mechanism and 11 then to present the heel end of said shoe in co-operative relation to the nailing mechanism, and power operated means for mov-. ing said support successively to present a supported shoe to said mechanisms.

4. A machine of the class described having, in combination, heel seat lasting mechanism, mechanism for nailing the heel end of the sole over the lasted heel seat, a shoe support, said mechanisms and support being constructed and arranged for successive relative movements first to present a supported shoe and said lasting mechanism in co-operative relation and then to present said shoe and the nailing mechanism in co-operative menace 'relation and manually controlled power support, said mechanisms and support being constructed and arranged for successive relative movements first to present a supported shoe and said lastin mechanism in co-operative relation and then to present said shoe and the nailing mechanism in cooperative relation, and means for operating one of said mechanisms in time relation to the relative movement of the shoe support and said mechanism into co-operative relation.

6. A machine of the class described having, in combination heel seat lasting mechamsm, mechanism ior nailing the heel end of the sole over the lasted heel seat, a shoe.

support, said mechanisms andsupport being constructed and arranged for successive relative movements first to present a supported shoe and said lastin mechanism in co-operative relation and than to present said shoe and the nailing mechanism in co-operative relation, and means actuated by presentation of the shoe in co-operative relation to one of said mechanisms for causing said mechanism to operate u on the presented shoe.

7. A mac ine of the class described having, in combination, heel seat lasting mechanism, mechanism {or nailing the heel end of the sole over the lasted heel seat, a shoe support, said mechanisms and support being constructed and arranged for successive relative movements first to present a supported shoe and said lasting mechanism in co-operative relation and then to present said shoe and the nailing mechanism in co-operative relation, and means for operating said lasting and nailing mechanisms in time relation to said successive relative movements of the shoe support and said mechanisms into cooperative relation.

8. A machine of the class described having, in combination, heel seat lasting mechanism, mechanism for nailing the heel end of the sole over the lasted heel seat, a shoe support, said mechanisms and support being constructed and arranged for successive relative movements first to present a supported shoe and said lasting mechanism in 00-0 erative relation and then to present said shoe and the nailing mechanism in co-operative relation, and means actuated by presentation of the shoe and said mechanisms in co-operative relation for causing said mechanisms automatically to operate upon the shoe when presented.

9. A machine of the class described having, in combination, heel seat lastin mechanism, mechanism for nailing the eel end of the sole over the lasted heel seat, a shoe support constructed and arranged for movements of determinate extent first to present the heel end of a supported shoe in co-operative relation to the lasting mechanism and then to present the heel end of said shoe in co-operative relation mechanism, and means for operating one of said mechanisms in time relation to the movement of said support to position a shoe in co-operative relation to said mechanism.

to the nailing 10. A machine of the class described having, in combination, heel seat lasting mechanlsm, mechanism for nailing the heel end of the sole over the lasted heel seat, a shoe support constructed and arranged for movements of determinate extent first to present the heel end of a supported shoe in co-operative relation to the lasting mechanism and then to present the heel end of said shoe in co-operative relation to the nailing mechanism, and means for operating said mechanisms successively and in time relation to the successive movements of the shoe support to position the shoe in relation to the respective mechanisms. 11. A machine of the class described havmg, 1n combination, a mechanism for lasting the heel seat of a turn shoe to the shank and forepart of which a sole has been sewed, a device for holding the heel end of the sole turned back from the heel seat during the lasting, a mechanism for nailing the sole over the lasted heel seat, and a su port movable to present the shoe in position for the operation of the lasting mechanism and then for the operation of the nailing mechanism. 12. A machine of the class described havmg, in combination, a mechanism for lasting the heel seat of a turn shoe to the shank and forepart of which a sole has been sewed. a mechanism for nailing the sole over the lasted heel seat, and a shoe support movable to position a shoe, whatever its size, with its heel and in proper operative relation to the lasting mechanism and having a predetermined length of movement therefrom to carry the heel end of the shoe into similar relation to the nailing mechanism.

13. A. machine of the class described having, in combination, a mechanism for lasting the heel seat of a turn shoe to the shank and forepart of which a sole has been sewed, a mechanism for nailing the sole over the lasted heel seat, a shoe support movable to position a shoe, whatever its size, with its heel end in proper operative relation to the lasting mechanism, and means for giving 1 the shoe support a measured length of moveing, in combination, a mechanism for lasting the heel seat of a turn shoe to the shank and torepart of which a sole has been sewed,

co-operative lltl ESE!

1 a mechanism for nailing the sole over the lasted heel seat, a shoe support movable to position a shoe, whatever 1ts size, with its heel and in proper operative relation to the lasting mechanism, including a carriage along which the shoe is 1n1t1ally moved to a predetermined position, means for looking the shoe in such position on said carriage, and means for imparting to the carriage a predetermined movement to bring the support and its shoe into operative rela tion to the nailin mechanism.-

15. A shoe mac ine having, in combination, two mechanisms for operating on a shoe successively, a shoe support having a movement of variable length relatively to one of said mechanisms to position shoes of different sizes in operative relation to said mechanism, and means for thereafter impartin to the support a movement automatica ly limited in extent to transfer the shoe to similar operative relation to the other mechanism.

16. A lasting and tacking and heel seat nailing machine having, in combination, a tacking mechanism, a nailing mechanism, and means for giving the shoe a predetermined length of movement from its position of operative relation to the tackin mechanism to a position of operative re ation to the nailing mechanism whereby the nails and tacks are located in prearranged relation to each other.

17. A heel seat lasting and heel seat nailing machine having, in combination, heel seat lastin and heel seat nailing mechanisms, the lasting mechanism being open toward the nailing mechanism to receive a shoe heel-end foremost and the nailing mechanism presenting an open space under and beyond the nailing instrumentalities into which the shoe can be moved toe-end foremost to bring the heel seat under the nailing instrumentalities, a shoe support, and a guideway for directing movement of the support to present the shoe as described to said mechanisms successively.

18. A turn shoe heel seat lasting and heel seat nailing machine having, in combination, heel seat lasting and heel seat nailing mechanisms, the lasting mechanism being open toward the nailing mechanism to receive a shoe heel-end foremost and the nailing mechanism presenting an open space under and beyond the nailing instrumentalities into which the shoe can be moved toe-end foremost to bring the heel seat under the nailing instrumentalities, and means to turn the heel end of the sole up as the shoe is moved toward the lasting mechanism and to turn the said heel end of the sole down as a preliminary step to the nailing operation.

19. A heel seatlasting and heel seat nailingv machine, having, in combination, heel emes in other and constructed and arran ed to permit a shoe by movements in the irection of its length to be thrust heel-end foremost into the lasting mechanism and then toe-end foremost toward the nailing mechanism to bring its heel end into operative relation to the nailing mechanism.

21. A heel seat lasting and heel seat nailing machine having, in combination, a lasting mechanism, a nailing mechanism, and a shoe guideway connecting the two mechanisms, said machine being constructed and arranged with the lasting and nailing mechanisms at opposite ends of the guideway and facing toward each other wherebf; the shoe thrust backwa-rdly into the lasting mechanism will be brou 'ht into operative relation to the nailing mechanism by a reverse movement in the guideway.

22. A machine of the class described having, in combination, a heel seat nailing mechanlsm, means for operating the same, a shoe support, the machine being formed to present space under and back of the nailing mechanism into which the shoe mounted on said support can be moved toe-end first in moving the support and shoe to present the shoe to the seat nailing mechanism, and power operated means for thus moving the support and shoe and for thereafter moving them in the reverse direction from said mechanism.

23. A machine of the class described having, in combination, a heel seat nailing mechanism, means for operating the same, a shoe support, and a guideway for the support, the nailing mechanism bein constructed and arranged to permit the s oe on said support to be presented under it toeend foremost for nailing the heel seat and the guideway being arranged to direct the shoe into such relation to the nailing mechanism.

24. A machine of the class described having, in combination, a turn shoe heel seat lasting mechanism, means for operating said mechanism to last the heel seat after the sole has been sewed to the forepart and shank of the shoe, and a member extending in substantially perpendicular relation to the heel seat and operating automatically to turn the heel end of the sole out of the racemes way of the lasting mechanism as theshoe is moved into operative relation to the lasting mechanism. 25. A machine of the class described having, in combination,' a turn'shoe heel seat lasting mechanism, a shoe support, a g u1de way for the support, and means positioned in the path of movement of the shoe on said support and arranged to turn the heel end of the sole out of the way of the lasting mechamsm.

26. A machine of the class described hav-- ing, in combination, a heel seat lasting mechanism, a mechanism for nailing the heel seat end of the sole. a shoe support movable between the said mechanisms, and means arranged in position to turn up the heel end of the sole automatically as the shoe is moved by the support into position to be lasted.

27. A machine of the class described having, in combination, a heel seat nailing mechanism and a shoe support relatively movable to bring the heel endof a supported shoe in co-operative relation to the nailing mechanism, and means for turning down upon the heel seat the heel end portion of the sole as a preliminary incident to the nailing of the sole to the heel seat.

28. A machine of the class described having, in combination, a heel seat lasting mechanism, a mechanism for nailing the heel seat end of the sole, a shoe support movable between the said mechanisms, and means arranged to turn down the heel end of the sole upon the lasted heel seat preparatory to nailing the sole.

29. A machine of the class described having, in combination, a turn shoe heel seat lasting mechanism, a mechanism for nailing the heel seat end of the sole, a shoe support movable between the said mechanisms, means arranged in position to turn up the heel end of the sole automatically as the shoe is moved by the support into position to be lasted, and means to turn the heel end of the sole down upon the lasted heel seat preparatory to nailing the sole.

30. A machine of the class described having, in combination, a heel seat lasting mechanism, a mechanism for nailing the heel seat end of the sole, a shoe support,

' means for efiecting relative movement of said mechanisms and said support to present the support and the lasting mechanism first in operative relation and then the support and the nailing mechanism in operative relation, and means for operating the lasting and the nailing mechanisms.

31. A machine of the class described hav ing, in combination, a heel seat lasting mechanism, a mechanism for nailing the heel seat end of the sole, a guideway connecting said mechanisms, and a shoe support mounted to move along the guideway between said mechanisms and arranged to present the 'shoe heel-end first in the lasting mechanism and to move the shoe toeend first into operative relation to the nailing mechanism.

32, A machine of the class described hav-i ing, in combination, a heel seat lasting mechanism, a mechanism for nailing the heel seat end of the sole, a guideway connecting said mechanisms, a shoe support mounted to move along the guideway between said mechanisms, and operating mechanism for causing the lasting and the nailing to be successively. performed upon the shoe.

33. A machine of the class described having, in combination, a heel seat lasting mechanism, a mechanism for nailing the heel seat end of the sole, a guideway connecting said mechanisms, a shoe support mounted to move along the guideway between said mechanisms, and operating mechanism for causing the lasting and the nailing to be successively performed upon the shoe, the machine having space between the lasting and nailing mechanisms in-excess of the length of the shoe to permit the jacking and unjacking. of the shoe.

34. An organized machine of the class described having, in combination, spaced heel seat lasting and heel seat nailing mechanisms, a shoe support, power operated mechlast and shoe receiving position intermediate of said mechanisms to present a supported shoe first to the lasting mechanism, then to present the supported shoe with its lasted heel seat in co-operative relation to the nailing mechanism and then to return said support to intermediate shoe receiving position, and means for operating said lasting and nailing mechanisms.

36. An organized machine of the class described having, in combination, spaced heel seat lasting mechanismand heel seat nailing mechanism and a shoe support relatively movable first to present the heel end of a supported shoe and said lasting mechanism in co-operative relation and then to present said heel end in co-operative relation to the nailing mechanism, and power operated means for eii'ecting successively said relative movements of the shoe support and the last ing and nailing mechanisms and for automatically operating sald mechanlsms 1n time relation to sa d relat ve movements, 

